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Vivian J. Woodland

American InterContinental University

English 107

The main point was about the death penalty for killing a 20 year old girl. It was interesting because the victim’s Mother was very sad that her daughter was dead but she was not interested in seeking the death penalty and she was not interested in putting her family through a lengthy legal process. What I found valuable about the case is that The victim’s Mother pleaded with the State of Florida “not to seek the death penalty for her daughters murder because they couldn’t stand putting the family through the trials and lengthy appeals that come with the death penalty cases” (Farah 2013).The case was significant in that the victim’s family thought that the person who killed Shelby “should face the consequences for what he did and be held accountable (Farah 2013) ” and though t that the death penalty in no way honors their daughters memory neither did the killing provide solace to the family. The family thought the death penalty “would inflict additional pain on the family” (Farah 2013). I thought this was significant and I also agree with the family who thought that they want to put it all behind them and have some closure to Shelby‘s murder, as opposed to drawing the case on and on for years.

(Farah 2013)

Adams, D. "Belief and Death:Capital Punishment and the Competence for Execution Requirement." Criminal Law & Philosophy. March 2016;10 (1):17-30, March 20, 2014: 10.

(Adams 2014) Reports on a “victim who is severely mentally disabled person. The law is that if a condemned, death row inmate may not be killed if, at the time of his scheduled execution, he lacks an awareness of his impending death or the reasons for it. It was disturbing and unethical to find the deeply disturbed permissible to kill just as long as they meet some” narrow test of readiness to die.” I find it disturbing as long as a prisoner demonstrates an awareness of certain facts about his death.” It is just wrong when prisoners who are psychotic or delusional are executed.

(Cox, Amanda K 2013)

This study done on college students and the effects of information and their attitudes they have about the death penalty. The study examines the attitude and effects of information. About the death penalty on the attitudes of University Students. Unfortunately, “it was found that the degree of attitude change at post-test did not differ significantly between the experimental and control groups.” (Cox, Amanda K 2013).

(Experimental Groups and Criminal justice 1972) This was a study test done because it was derived from the written opinion of Justice Thurgood Marshall in Furman vs. Georgia in 1972. Subjects completed questionnaire’s at the beginning and the end of the fall semester. Experimental group subjects were enrolled in a death penalty class; while other subjects were enrolled in a criminal justice class. The death penalty class was the experimental stimulus. The report found that subjects were lacking in death penalty knowledge before the experimental stimulus but, the death penalty proponents who scored” high on a retribution index did not change their death penalty opinions despite exposure to the death penalty kn owl edge. Even the penalty proponents who scored “low on a retribution index also did not change their death penalty opinions even though they became more informed to the subject.

(Hoover and Cunnningham, 2007)

A case study was done in New Jersey on the death penalty to replace it with life without parole and the state of New Jersey replaced Capital punishment with Life without parole on December 17, 2007. I thought that case study was significant because it interview ed innocent people on death row and it took into consideration the murder victims families as well. “Also, they interviewed law enforcement officers who were in opposition to the death penalty as well”. This case study was done with an array of subjects who all were against the death penalty.

Resources

Adams, D. "Belief and Death:Capital Punishment and the Competence for Execution Requirement." Criminal Law & Philosophy. March 2016;10 (1):17-30, March 20, 2014: 10.

Cox, Amanda K. Student Death Penalty. College Students Attitudes, Los Angeles, CA: Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 2013.

Experimental Groups and Criminal justice. Public Opinion Hypothesis. Experiment questionnaires on the death penalty, orlando, FL: Criminal Justice Administration, 1972.

Farah. "My Daughter's killer should not get the death penalty." My Daughter's killer should not get the death penalty, 2013: 1.

Hoover, Andy, and Ken Cunnningham, . Social movement. Case Study, New Jersey: Humanity and Society, 2007.